Nigeria, May 1 -- Governors of states in northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, at a meeting in Kaduna, discussed issues relating to the security and rising number of out-of-school children in the region.

The meeting was their first in 2024. At a previous meeting in December 2023, they discussed similar issues of security and underdevelopment.

The meeting, which was held at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, was chaired by Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, who is also the chairman of the Northern Nigeria Governors' Forum.

Some of the northern states have been facing security challenges for more than a decade, especially the Boko Haram insurgency that ravaged the North-east, the banditry crisis in the North-west and farmers - herders as wel...